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Enrollment
672
Elementary
DISTRICT 641 · STATE 418
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ESTEM PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL·NCES 050039801468
ESTEM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
112 W 3RD ST, LITTLE ROCK, AR 72201 · (501) 748-9200 · Pulaski County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY12-CITYCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL672 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 38% of Arkansas public elementary schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Arkansas public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
15.3:1
44 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.9:1 · STATE 16.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
84%
566 students
DISTRICT 73% · STATE 70%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 73 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 112 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 100 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 92 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 93 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 100 | 15% |
| Grade 6 | 102 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (73) is 28% smaller than its 6th grade class (102).
Student demographics
34%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 46% · STATE 61% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
ATLAS 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3+4)English Language Arts
32.9%
AR avg 34.9% . +3.5pp since 2023
Math
33.1%
AR avg 38.9% . +4.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 33 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 33 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Arkansas schools, those numbers are about 35 and 39. Reading and writing scores are up about 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
ATLAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 32.9% | 33.1% |
| 2023-24 | 29.4% | 29.0% |
% Proficient (Level 3+4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: ATLAS. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
30.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
28.5%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+1.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 30% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 29% typical for Arkansas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Arkansas's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like ESTEM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
ESTEM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (30.3% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| ESTEM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 672 | 84.2% | 30.3% |
| MARION VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS MAGNET SCHOOL WEST MEMPHIS | 762 | 85.8% | 12.5% |
| ESTEM EAST VILLAGE ELEMENTARY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL LITTLE ROCK | 609 | 78.3% | 25.1% |
| YOCUM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL EL DORADO | 580 | 90.0% | 22.5% |
| FRIENDSHIP ASPIRE ACADEMY HAZEL ST PINE BLUFF PINE BLUFF | 469 | 80.0% | 36.0% |
| FOX MEADOW SCHOOL OF CREATIVE MEDIA JONESBORO | 440 | 86.6% | 19.0% |
Matched among Arkansas elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where ESTEM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Arkansas | In Pulaski County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 30.3% | #293 of 461 | #20 of 63 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 33.1% | #276 of 465 ▲ 25 | #17 of 63 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 32.9% | #262 of 465 ▲ 31 | #20 of 63 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 672 | #43 of 531 | #8 of 72 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.3:1 | #162 of 480 | #26 of 65 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 34.4% | #310 of 480 | #54 of 65 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 84.2% | #183 of 513 | #35 of 69 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -32.1% | #29 of 311 | #8 of 42 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
672
-309 (-31%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
15.3:1
was 16.6:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 672 | 44 | 15.3:1 | 84% (566) |
| 2023-24 | 839 | 52.1 | 16.1:1 | 78% (656) |
| 2022-23 | 892 | 57.9 | 15.4:1 | 75% (669) |
| 2020-21 | 981 | 59 | 16.6:1 | 58% (567) |
| 2017-18 | 989 | 59.2 | 16.7:1 | 23% (227) |
| 2015-16 | 490 | 31 | 15.8:1 | 37% (183) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for ESTEM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About ESTEM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
ESTEM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public elementary school in LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas. The school had 672 students in kindergarten through 6 in 2024-25. Average enrollment for elementary schools in Arkansas is about 418, so this school runs 61% above that.
ESTEM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is in ESTEM PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL, a district with 2,638 students across 5 schools.
Black students are the large majority at ESTEM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, with 80% of enrollment. Next come 8% Hispanic, 7% White, and 5% multiracial. That compares with about 37% Black among all Pulaski County residents. By the diversity index, ESTEM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes in at 34%.
The teaching staff at ESTEM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the ratio is 15.3:1. Elementary schools in Arkansas average about 16.0:1, a similar figure. About 84% of students, or 566, qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The rate at public schools in Pulaski County averages 71%, lower than here.
allk12 grades ESTEM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL a C+. The grade compares the school only with Arkansas public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
Test results at ESTEM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are 1.8 points above what its free or reduced-price lunch share predicts (30.3% actual, 28.5% predicted).
Census estimates describe Pulaski County this way: median household income is about $62,873, about 38% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 13% of residents are in poverty. Federal data list 133 public schools in Pulaski County, with a combined enrollment of about 64,124.
ESTEM EAST VILLAGE ELEMENTARY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL is located less than a tenth of a mile from ESTEM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. In a group of 6 nearby schools with scores, ESTEM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 2nd on average proficiency.
Federal data place ESTEM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in the City: Mid-size locale, which means it is inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000. ESTEM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of the charter schools in Arkansas.
Federal counts put enrollment at 981 in 2020-21 and 672 in 2024-25, a 31% decrease. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 16.6:1; by 2024-25 it was 15.3:1.
Parents and students can post about enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news at ESTEM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Questions from prospective families are welcome too.
Pulaski County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
399,818
Census ACS
Median income
$62,873
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
13%
Below federal line
Schools in county
133
64,124 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in ESTEM PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL
- ESTEM HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 676 students
- ESTEM EAST VILLAGE ELEMENTARY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLElementary · 609 students
- ESTEM JUNIOR HIGH PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLMiddle · 401 students
- ESTEM EAST VILLAGE JUNIOR HIGH PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLMiddle · 280 students
Other schools in LITTLE ROCK
- ARKANSAS VIRTUAL ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,567 students
- CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,371 students
- ARKANSAS VIRTUAL ACADEMY ELEMENTARYElementary · 1,387 students
- ARKANSAS VIRTUAL ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,315 students
- DR. MARIAN G. LACEY K-8 ACADEMYElementary · 1,252 students
- PARKVIEW MAGNET HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,072 students
Nearby schools
- ESTEM EAST VILLAGE ELEMENTARY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL0.0 mi · 609
- ARKANSAS VIRTUAL ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL0.5 mi · 2,567
- ARKANSAS VIRTUAL ACADEMY ELEMENTARY0.5 mi · 1,387
- ARKANSAS VIRTUAL ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL0.5 mi · 1,315
- ESTEM HIGH SCHOOL0.8 mi · 676
- ESTEM JUNIOR HIGH PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL0.9 mi · 401
Frequently asked questions
About ESTEM ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow large is ESTEM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
ESTEM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 672 students in grades KG-06.
Is ESTEM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
ESTEM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades KG-06.
How many students per teacher at ESTEM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 15.3:1 students per teacher at ESTEM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
How diverse is ESTEM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
ESTEM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 7% White, 8% Hispanic, 80% Black, 0% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is ESTEM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
ESTEM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school operated as a charter, overseen by ESTEM PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL.
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